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This is my first post. I have been postponing blogging for a long time. The reason for that was I couldn’t decide whether to create my own website or use an already provided solution.

First I thought I should use a blog solution, as a result, I would not have to make decisions over how create the website, design etc., but rather would focus on the blogging. So I used siteground with wordpress for a while. Until, I saw Gatsby. Fast out of the box, easy to use, powered by react and graphql. Perfect opportunity to get into graphql as a bonus. I had to jump in.

So why am I writing a blog. In short, I want to provide people that want to get into frontend development the resource I wish I had. Go on and check another post by me and see if you like the content. If you are curious for the long answer, continue to read.

There are a lot of frontend development resources. Although it is every kid’s dream to be able to choose any candy from the candy shop, a child who is granted that wish with a limit to choose only one, is soon to discover every choice has cost of not choosing the other and idea of a chance to regret the choice paralyzes the child. I find that the reason we watch videos like Which programming language to learn in 2019 and Which Code Editor I am using, is the idea that somehow if we watch enough of them we will make the right choice, we will not have the buyer’s remorse once we dive in. The process of learning, starts to steal time from the learning itself. Instead, there is usually one answer to all these types of videos, it depends.

Each situation is unique and to respond to these situations you need exposure to knowledge. The more exposure you have to different situations you start to see patterns, you start to realize there are advantages and disadvantages to each approach. This creates your time as the most important resource. But the way platforms like youtube incentivizes creating content non-stop and sticking viewers to the screen as much as possible makes the free content come at the cost of your time and privacy. There are great resources on youtube, but beware you may get lost in them. You might even find yourself procrastinating positively, you know, by learning which language to learn.

So here, I will try to provide a comprehensive dictionary for the javascript language in as short form as I can make possible. I find that most programming concepts are taught in isolation. Considering how some topics are so complex and unintiutive, it makes sense, breaking the problem to smaller pieces makes it easier to digest. In the meantime, the why is lost. But for certain learners like myself, who has to know the bigger picture and connections between to learn a concept, this creates wrong assumptions at the time of learning, and causes a lot of relearning in the long term. I will try to teach you things with the right mental model from step one.

I will be focusing mostly on Javascript and frontend development here. I will update the posts as I have time to work on it. And the goal is to make them either short or have a comprehensive analogy. We will see how it works. Feel free to follow me on twitter. For any feedback you can dm me or tweet @emilmartinov.

So here to my first post, cheers !

Written by Emil Martinov who lives Rotterdam || Istanbul and loves everything js. He tweets mostly about js.